Ludmila Engquist

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Medal record
Olympic Games
Women's athletics
Gold	1996 Atlanta	100 m hurdles
World Championships
Gold	1991 Tokyo	100 m hurdles
Gold	1997 Athens	100 m hurdles

Ludmila Engquist (born April 21, 1964 in Tambov Oblast, Russia) is a Swedish athlete who won gold medals in 100m hurdles at the 1991 World Championships (for the Soviet Union under the name Ludmila Narozhilenko) and 1997 World Championships as well as the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. For her 1997 victory in Athens, Engquist received the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, the first non-native Swede to win the honor.

After a successful career she wanted to be the first woman ever to win both the summer and winter Olympics' gold medal by competing in and winning the inaugural two-woman bobsleigh event at the 2002 Winter Olympics, but she was banned from competition after being found guilty of using banned drugs, for the second time in her career.

She currently lives in Spain with her husband Johan Engquist.

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Olympic champions in women's 80 m hurdles and 100 m hurdles
80 m hurdles: 1932: Babe Didrikson \| 1936: Trebisonda Valla \| 1948: Fanny Blankers-Koen \| 1952: Shirley Strickland \| 1956: Shirley Strickland \| 1960: Irina Press \| 1964: Karin Balzer \| 1968: Maureen Caird
100 m hurdles: 1972: Annelie Ehrhardt \| 1976: Johanna Schaller-Klier \| 1980: Vera Komisova \| 1984: Benita Fitzgerald-Brown \| 1988: Yordanka Donkova \| 1992: Voula Patoulidou \| 1996: Ludmila Engquist \| 2000: Olga Shishigina \| 2004: Joanna Hayes